Sentences with phrase «major national industry»

The US offshore wind industry is on the verge of becoming a major national industry, according to the Business Network for Offshore Wind, but in a new report it has warned that immediate investment is needed in the US supply chain so as to offset the steady reduction of the Investment Tax Credit and to minimize reliance on the European supply industry.

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This week Fortune caught up with Jarred Kennedy, the co-head of esports at Riot Games, to discuss the world championship (the finals will take place Nov. 4 at the Bird's Nest National Stadium in Beijing) as well as the overall growth of the esports industry and Riot's plans, much like rival Activision Blizzard, to remodel its own esports league after major professional sports leagues like the NFL and NBA.

LONDON, May 3 - Libya's National Oil Corp is withholding Total's share of crude from the Waha concession as a dispute drags on over the French oil major's purchase of Marathon's stake in the concession two months ago, Libyan oil and industry sources said.

All the while, the industry thrived financially under a combination of high oil prices, low natural gas prices (a major input cost), recession - induced relief from cost inflation and a reduced cost of capital as majors and foreign national oil companies gobbled up wobbly juniors.

LONDON, May 3 (Reuters)- Libya's National Oil Corp (NOC) is withholding Total's share of crude from the Waha concession as a dispute drags on over the French oil major's purchase of Marathon's stake in the concession two months ago, Libyan oil and industry sources said.

The ACSC said in a report on Monday that it responded to 734 cyber attacks on «systems of national interest» for the year ended June 30, and the defense industry was a major target.

March 15, 2012 A National Public Safety Broadband Network: One Major Step Closer to Reality with Industry Canada Decision to Allot Dedicated Spectrum Towards its Development

«Blockchain - related technologies have the potential to bring about major change in the financial services industry,» David Furlong, senior vice president of artificial intelligence, venture capital and blockchain at National Bank of Canada, said in a statement.

IT industry lobby National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) is in the process of setting up newer co-working centers, christened «Startup Warehouse», across major cities.

When Major General Manuel Quevedo became head of Venezuela's oil industry last November, the former housing minister and national guard chief promised to boost oil output by a million barrels Continue Reading

In the most current declarations in regard to the UK economic growth disturbance reported by the Confederation of British Industry it is expressive as the trend is at par with other major national economies of the European...

National Bank also highlighted that major maintenance initiatives are planned at Syncrude Canada Ltd., Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.'s Athabasca oil sands project and Suncor Energy Inc.'s base plant — which cumulatively could reduce industry oil output by 650,000 barrels per day in the coming months, easing some of the stress on full pipeline networks.

There are two principal types of socialism: «full socialism» in which the state owns all (or the vast majority) of business and industry and controls production and marketing decisions through central planning; and «partial socialism», in which the state owns major businesses deemed to be essential to the national good, and / or subsidizes certain industries to save them from the impact of competition, and provides certain goods and services deemed to be essential at reduced or no cost, but still allows major sectors of the economy to operate as free enterprise capitalism.

Over the years, Curly's Foods became a major producer of products for the barbecue industry on a national scale.

But the deal for meat workers — new to the national retail agreement — has been slammed by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) as a «major loss for meat workers» conditions and a major loss to penalty rates».

Davies has previous worked at four major South African companies, namely National Starch, Bestfoods Robertsons, Unilever SA and AECI, gaining experience in the food ingredients and processing industries, food retail, foodservice and fast food markets.

Setting the global pace and standards for not only the industry but national certifying bodies and agencies, Axiom's ingredients have been featured in ground - breaking double blind clinical trials at a major American university, have earned the first GRAS approval, and their celebrated organic Oryzatein ® brown rice protein ingredient is patent - pending.

Like low - carbon energy, the Administration has also placed major funding emphasis on advanced manufacturing, particularly through their multi-agency initiative to establish a national network of 45 manufacturing innovation institutes with industry.

After a year - long process of peer review, the DEMS scientists recently turned over to industry and others copies of two major papers they planned to publish in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

HEU has formed a well - structured curriculum that is characterized by the main subjects of ship industry, ocean equipment and exploration, and nuclear application as well as distinctive, related disciplines with matching support and reasonable structural layout: 12 first - degree doctoral stations, 27 first - degree master stations, 56 under graduate majors, 13 post-doctoral mobile stations (research station), 1 national key discipline of the first - degree subjects, 1 national key discipline of the second - degree subjects, 11 defense featured subjects, 7 special defense majors, 4 characteristic profession stations of the Ministry of Education, 1Heilongjiang provincial key discipline group, 11 first - degree subjects.

Coastal countries or national research institutions regard the marine habitat as a major financial source and collect marine macroorganisms in both private and federal institutions to sell them to the industry or public institutions.

NanoMalaysia's primary role in the development of Malaysia's National Graphene Action Plan 2020 together with Agensi Inovasi Malaysia and PEMANDU [Performance Management & Delivery Unit attached to Prime Minister's Office] is a major landmark in our journey to ensure Malaysia stays competitive in the global innovation landscape particularly in nanotechnology, which cuts across all industries including ICT [information and communications technologies].

Read both a national and industry perspective on Deep Earth Imaging, the opportunities for sourcing mineral, energy and groundwater resources, as well as some of CSIRO's other major investments that could benefit the minerals and mining industry.

It may be surprising for you to learn that in a country with more than one billion people, the fastest growing film industry in the world, and a 10 billion rmb (1.5 billion usd) box office gross in 2010 alone, there is hardly any professional film criticism accessible to its public.When I say hardly any, I mean that there is an absence of professional film critics who work for major, national publications and media outlets, and thus a lack of regular film reviews of new Chinese movies, at least for the mass audiences.

Schools districts that rely on bond insurance to help them save money on the borrowing they do for construction projects and special programs could be affected by major ups and downs in that industry, at a time when many districts are already nervous about state budget cuts and a sagging national economy.

She speaks widely, sharing the platform with Presidents, Prime Ministers, and CEOs at major events, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and national industry conferences in over 20 countries.

A Hartford Superior Court Judge is being asked today to authorize an «agreement» between the Malloy Administration and Leeds Global Partners, a major player in the national education reform industry.

The D.C. Policy Center's strong network of local support representing every major industry in the District has enabled the Education Policy Initiative to attract funding from national foundations.

A major newspaper expose demonstrating the U.S. school testing industry's inability to competently design and administer the current level of required state exams should persuade Congress to drop a plan to greatly increase mandated testing now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest).

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Des Moines is a national hub for the insurance industry and also has a number of major financial firms and publishers.

The PPGSA was created to harness the experience and expertise of the three major national pet styling associations — IPG, ISCC and NDGAA — to develop industry - wide best practices for pet grooming.

This is due to consolidation in the industry, with only three major players left — Avis / Budget, Hertz (which purchased Dollar / Thrifty in August for $ 2.3 billion) and Enterprise (which now owns Alamo and National brands).

Baker has been a consultant to such travel industry leaders as Backroads, Mountain Travel - Sobek, and National Geographic Expeditions, as well as for major international corporations such as Intel.

As you know, in the land rising sun the coin - op industry is still live and kicking, and Sega — being the leader - has a major share of the national income (thanks also to its ownership of many arcade centers such as Club Sega and Sega Gigo, in which millions of yen is spent every year).

A bigger problem, it seems to me, is that the national leadership in this country is so pathetic, and in hock so far to lobbyists and major industries, that we will be lucky not to continue to increase our CO2 emissions, let alone reduce them.

While we've been working on this legislation, there have been a number of major studies across a broad range of industries, government and national regions that have all concluded that our bill will be the engine of job growth.

PHEVs definitely should be receiving a major (MAJOR) US national priority at this time — they are a way to revive American industry and seize back much of the world auto mamajor (MAJOR) US national priority at this time — they are a way to revive American industry and seize back much of the world auto maMAJOR) US national priority at this time — they are a way to revive American industry and seize back much of the world auto market.

A major UK government policy goal for roughly forty years has been the sustenance of the national coal industry — which by the early 1990's had grown vastly inefficient by world standards.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

Based on the analysis in Chapter 1 of the Climate Shift report, it is no longer tenable to assert a David vs. Goliath narrative when it comes to comparing the financial resources of the major national environmental groups and their opponents among conservative groups and industry associations.

Big coal — in the form of the National Rural Electric Association, Koch Industries, American Electric Power, the Southern Company, the National Association of Manufacturers and others are planning a major blitz against efforts to fight global warming.

From a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestation.)

The top ten carbon majors include ChevronTexaco, Exxon - Mobil, BP and Royal Dutch Shell, along with government - run industries in the former USSR, China and Poland, as well as the nationally owned Saudi Aramco, Gazprom and the National Iranian Oil Company.

note 43, and Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2006 Report (Brussels: 2007), p. 4, with capacity factor from National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Oak Ridge, TN: DOE, August 2006); Flemming Hansen, «Denmark to Increase Wind Power to 50 % by 2025, Mostly Offshore,» Renewable Energy Access, 5 December 2006; Global Wind Energy Council, «Global Wind Energy Markets Continue to Boom - 2006 Another Record Year,» press release (Brussels: 2 February 2007), with European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association, «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16.

His basic conclusion was that NZ is collectively dishonest using the «100 % Pure» slogan to attract tourists as NZ has a higher carbon impactt than the UK, despite the screamingly obvious facts that NZ has only about 4.3 m inhabitants, its major industries are grassland farming of various types plus viticulture and forestry; NZ is about a seventh larger than the UK in land mass and two - thirds of NZ is locked into National Parks, a unique mix of indigenous Podocarp forests and mountain chains.

We represent a wide variety of clients including a world - class semiconductor foundry company, several multinational corporations and many major national and international players in hi - tech and information industry involved in patent, copyright, trademark and trade secrete license or infringement, telecommunication, depositary receipt or convertible bond issuance, joint venture, merger and acquisition, trade practices, syndicated loan arrangement and environment protection.

Industry associations such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners impose major influence on insurance companies to maintain common industry stIndustry associations such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners impose major influence on insurance companies to maintain common industry stindustry standards.

A major insurance company and a major insurance industry group are backing a recommendation by the National Transportation Safety Board for a state - by - state ban on using cellphones while driving... more

He said that after much research and direct contact with the major trucking companies, he chose National Training Truck Driving School because he felt he would receive the professional training he needed to break into the industry.